A high-speed chase Thursday on Interstate 77 in Carroll County resulted in a shutdown of traffic, after the driver told police there was a bomb in her car.

K9 units and bomb technicians were called to the scene in the mid-morning hours of May 10, and VDOT closed traffic on both the northbound and southbound lanes around mile marker 17 until early afternoon.

Cars backed up for several miles as police investigated the situation.

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A law firm is offering to represent Virginia localities as part of a targeted lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies who manufacture opioids.

The Wagstaff & Cartmell law firm of Kansas is appearing before multiple regional city and town councils, offering to represent them. Recently, they visited meetings of Galax City Council and the Carroll County Board of Supervisors.

Del. Jeff Campbell, who represents Carroll and Galax in the Virginia General Assembly, brought the proposal to the meetings. Campbell is also an attorney.

HILLSVILLE — A jury trial has been delayed for a man charged in connection with the death of a Carroll County deputy in 2017.

Joseph Alan Lambert, 21, of Goodview, was being pursued by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department in March 2017 when Deputy Curtis Bartlett answered fellow officers’ calls for help. He was on his way to join the pursuit when his patrol vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer at the Interstate 77-U.S 58 intersection.

A Winston-Salem, N.C., man was charged with failure to maintain control of his vehicle after his tractor-trailer overturned on Meadow Street in Galax on Sunday, according to a report issued by the Galax Police Department.

Cesar Nathaniel Howard, 30, was driving a 2015 Hino tractor-trailer north along Meadow Street on May 6 at 10 a.m. when it ran off the right side of the road. It then came back onto the road and began to lose control, traveling back across the northbound lane into the southbound lane, the police report said.